I just read it, Julilly! I squealed when I got the email about it being updated; I just didn't get to reading it right away LOL. Sorry about that. I thought it was a good chapter, and I loved how you started it, with the imagery of the San Francisco movie car chase.
Like I said in my review, I just found it kind of confusing because it's been so long, I've forgotten a lot of details from earlier in the story, and that made it kind of hard to follow. It has nothing to do with your writing, which is as great as ever; it's just all the time between updates. It's like when you see a movie once, and the sequel comes out a year later, and as you watch it, you're like, "Wow, I wish I could remember the first movie because I'm sure this would make more sense if I did." That's how I felt reading this chapter LOL. I remembered that Valerie was supposedly "dead" and that Nick is still prancing around in Toni's decaying corpse, but that was about it LOL. So I just need to go back and reread first the next time you update. (Or you could just try updating a little more often and save us the confusion.
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